CVE-2016-4472
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 30, 2016
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Reserved
- May 2, 2016
Description
The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- USN-3013-1vendor-advisory
- 91528vdb-entry
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- GLSA-201701-21vendor-advisory
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
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